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OffBook: Sitting Ovation

I have been asked to fill in as a guest blogger for the month of November. Who am I, and why should you care what I have to say? Excellent questions…

I’m Jeff Sprague, and I’ve been acting at CP for about five years. I’ve done some directing with respect to the 2010 One-Act festival and had my show derided as “too cynical” by the local media. Well, it was a pretty cynical script about the dehumanizing experience of war, so I’ll take it as a compliment. I’m not sure why the reviewer wanted puppy dogs and ice cream in the Iraqi desert, but it takes all kinds, right? Anyway, as far as why you should care as to what I have to say, well, you shouldn’t. At any rate, I’m the guy they asked to fill in, so you get to read my thoughts for the next few paragraphs.

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